AI & Censorship
As generative AI matures, it is going to be used to censor inconvenient opinions and truths. We are seeing this in search engines and the chatbots themselves, already. In this post, we will explore the problem a bit and see how we can navigate around these insanely biased and frankly stupid tools.
Which Linux?
What’s FOSS, Anyway?
What’s FOSS? FOSS is an acronym for Free & Open Source Software[1]. Most software that we are familiar with is not open source. What does it mean that something is open source vs being proprietary? Why should we want something that is open source vs something…
Why Linux?
Why Use Linux? Last time, we looked at what Linux is and is not. Today, we’ll lay out part of why you should want to use Linux rather than Windows or macOS. Let me recap just a bit from what Linux is before we jump into the meat of today’s post, ok? So, what is Linux?…
What’s Linux? A Primer
Hi Again, Today I thought we would roll things back a bit and take a look at what some of the core topics I’ve been covering really are. First things first, we will take a look at what Linux is, and what it isn’t. If I have space, I will talk about infrastructure,…
Jitsi 101
Tired of knowing that Zoom, Hangouts, Meet, Skype, and most of the other video conferencing platforms get snooped on by the CCP, if not our own intelligence community? Need a good alternative? There are a few out there, and most of the free ones are more or less…
Altha Tech, Self-Hosting, and You
If you ever wondered about self-hosting, this week will be a good introduction to the concept as well as to the fediverse, a portmanteau of Federated and Universe. The Fediverse is a set of interoperable protocols and applications which can talk to one another, and…
Altha Tech + WordPress: a Match Made in Heaven
What you need to know about how Altha Tech uses WordPress to host and manage your sites A match made in heaven. Altha Tech has used WordPress to power most of its web design and hosting services for 7+ years. Altha Tech can build just about any kind of website for…
What’s Nextcloud, Anyway?
What is Nextcloud all about? Maybe you’ve heard of it, or maybe this will be an introduction for you, but it is, in short, a powerful, private, open source collaboration solution which you can self-host (on any hardware you want which has a network connection) or set…
NixOS and Altha Tech
What is NixOS, anyway? NixOS is more of a packaging system than a full-fledged Linux Distribution. What makes it interesting or worthwhile? It, like VanillaOS (https://vanillaos.org/) or BlendOS (https://blendos.co/), has atomized updating, and each package sits in…